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Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term. "When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

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Talking about non-lethal ammo on Threads and I find out that a photo journalist who lost an eye during the George Floyd protests is now dying of her injuries from non-lethal ammo. The kind of ammo a LAPD officer used to shoot an Australian journalist today. www.npr.org/2024/06/21/n... #LosAngeles

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1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

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There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Dr. King used nonviolence strategically to dramatize the contradiction. Consider how best to dramatize the contradiction under present conditions.

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Gender criticals cannot be feminists, because their goals are fundamentally opposed. Feminists fight for equality, as they have done across all 4 waves. GCs fight for a nonsense called "sex based rights", which allegedly derive from women being born into a "sex class".

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Saying "protesters bring this on themselves" is like saying "yeah but what was she wearing?" about your own constitutional rights.

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Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Şuayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard The embodiments of Hope the Principle! #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege #AllEyesOnMadleen

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Every accusation is a confession

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Homeschooled adults are less likely than non-homeschoolers to have a full-time job or to have an above-average income.

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lmao The Sun has a livestream of the “LA riots” on YouTube and when you click on it it’s a bunch of troops standing around doing nothing you can literally hear birds singing in the background what a time to be alive

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looks like an objective assessment to me

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This week, Republicans confessed they didn't bother reading the budget bill. If they read it, they would have discovered that they voted to rip away healthcare, food, & other essential resources from millions of our shared constituents. The sham & shame of it all. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

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Rachel’s story is a haunting glimpse of what’s at stake with NIH funding being slashed—a reminder that behind every data point is a life in need. I will keep fighting for Rachel, and for every American whose hope and healing depend on NIH’s lifesaving research.

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AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

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Silence Is Complicity Straighten your spine Speak & live your truth

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I just want to say that this is the most spectacular turn of events I have ever seen. The atrocious billboard will now be something I enjoy seeing.

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Kilmar Abrego being returned to the US is an important reminder that they aren’t all powerful. Our leaders and regular citizens just have to give a damn about what’s going on and make it clear that they do.

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“.. This isn't shared sacrifice to address our fiscal trajectory--it's a direct transfer of wealth to the rich.” - @brendanvduke.bsky.social

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If you want universal healthcare for Washington state, @wholewashington.org is working on getting an initiative on the 2026 ballot. We need to collect signatures. Go here to sign up: actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

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When a pregnant woman is having a medical emergency, doctors are required by law to provide life-saving care. That includes abortions. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. think they should be the ones to make decisions in emergency rooms — not your doctor. This will hurt women everywhere.

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finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment

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The fact that a term such as “reverse discrimination” exists is an admission that gives away the whole game: Even they are defining the normal discrimination as being against people who aren’t white and straight.

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The idea that the country actually cares about women athletes that much is laughable Look around at their salaries and facilities and get back to me

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The people on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is meant to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza are saying there is a drone hovering over their ship, which they take as a threat given what happened last time. This is happening right now.

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I hope people get violently angry about what happened to Johnathon Joss. On the first day of Pride he was shot and killed by homophobes who burned down his house and killed his pets. They were openly bigoted towards him and the police didn't do anything to protect him even after facing violence.

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren’s Report A new report itemizes 130 dodgy dealings by the man who calls himself the “Dogefather.”

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It says a lot about where we’re at in this country that a beloved voice actor was murdered by his homophobic neighbor and every headline is still running passive defense for his killer, doing everything not to call this hate crime what it was. These are scary times. RIP to Jonathan Joss.

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On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

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Turns out voters like people who fight to defend democracy.

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They're literally doing the meme

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I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.

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Every day that this horror continues, I think of Omar El Akkad's tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

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